Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
Summary: | Mail merge to file doesn't go to next record on a page | ||||||||||
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Product: | Writer | Reporter: | fabienst <fabienst> | ||||||||
Component: | ui | Assignee: | christian.jansen | ||||||||
Status: | CLOSED FIXED | QA Contact: | issues@sw <issues> | ||||||||
Severity: | Trivial | ||||||||||
Priority: | P2 | CC: | flibby05, issues, phill.gillespie | ||||||||
Version: | OOo 1.1 RC4 | ||||||||||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||||
Hardware: | PC | ||||||||||
OS: | All | ||||||||||
Issue Type: | DEFECT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- | ||||||||
Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||||||||||
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Description
fabienst
2003-09-10 12:21:13 UTC
Created attachment 9159 [details]
file to use to merge
Created attachment 9160 [details]
File containing data to merge
Created attachment 9201 [details]
Sample output Page 1 - seems to work
I've created an attachment. Isn't this what you expected? Each Label is different. Win XP, German, RC4 both labels are the same for me (When I open your attachement) : The first shows : Name 1 Rue 1 CP1 Ville1 The 2nd shows : Name 1 Rue 1 CP1 Ville1 but it should show the data in the 2nd line of the spreadsheet Name 2 Rue 2 CP2 Ville2 OK, now I see it, too. When opening the merged file there is a request to update all "links" (?, German "Verknüpfungen"), if i choose yes the labels will be the same but if i choose no the labels will be different. but that's not normal behaviour, is it ? Hi, please let developers set the target milestone after confirmation and eveluation of issues. Thanks, Stefan > but that's not normal behaviour, is it ?
To show an update request or the different labels?
That the contents of the labels are changend isn't normal behaviour,
of course.
> To show an update request or the different labels?
To show the labels (especialy to show the same labels on a page)
Trying to summarize.. User does a mailmerge on a label document. Mailmerge to printer device or files work correctly. However when user will open any of the new mailmerge-generated output docs, he will be prompted "Update all links? YES/NO". This causes confusion, because.. 1) There is no Help-button available. 2) From the program side the situation may be desribed as follows: When working with label docs, we basically have a doc structure as label 2..n = label 1 (synchronization of a _label_ doc..). With mailmerging however we get generated docs, which have two following things, that seem to be standing in conflict: Label 2..n != Label 1, when we are talking about the content of a label, but at the same time Label 2..n = Label 1, when we look at the structure and layout of a certain label. Proposals: 1) Offer a working link to an entry explaining described situation in the online-help 2) Maybe additionally a short description given to the user directly in the dialog. 3) [IMHO to be deferred..] Documents, which are mailmerge generated from a label template, should not have the structure of a label document, but - in order to "desynchronize" label entries 1..n. - just the structure of a "regular" document (no inner connections) Any input highly appreciated ! :-) changing OS to all. correction: "3) [IMHO to be deferred..]" -> "3) [IMHO to be deprecated..]" unconfirmed -> new HI-OS: From my point of view the update popup should be disabled in case of Mail-Merge docs. A doc created by mail merge is just the same as one created differently. The update question is caused by the existence of linked content. In the rework of mail merge for OOo 2.0 the creation of single documents will most probably be dropped. ->cj: Please add this task to your mail merge issue collection >> In the rework of mail merge for OOo 2.0 the creation of single documents will
>> most probably be dropped.
oh no, please not! :-)
(( it's a feature i found most useful for the following scenario:
* database, which contains questions and answers
* mailmerge questions and answers into single files
* convert single *.swx-files to *.PDF-files
* import *.PDF-files into learning-card-application ))
I'll second the request to leave creation of separate documents in the mail merge system. I use it both ways (one big file and many small files) depending on need. I'll close this task, but all comments & files are moved to 20057. This is the main Mail Merge Task for Q. . |